And second, I want to make sure your expectations are set appropriately. Even after this rewrite rule, the ugly-looking URL will still exist and still work. The rewrite rule allows the pretty-looking URL to work in addition to the ugly-looking URL. If you have HTML links, you'll need to update them to point to the new pretty-looking URL.

donboe
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2014-02-27T08:35:41Z —
#4

Hi Jeff.

This entire .htaccess thing is confusing me a lot!

Even after this rewrite rule, the ugly-looking URL will still exist and still work. The rewrite rule allows the pretty-looking URL to work in addition to the ugly-looking URL. If you have HTML links, you'll need to update them to point to the new pretty-looking URL